Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:00 PM ET, March 12, 2006

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Ed O'Keefe / ABCNEWS:
Feingold Calls for Bush's Censure  —  Wisconsin Democrat Asks Senate to Rebuke the President for NSA Wiretaps  —  March 12, 2006— In an exclusive interview on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold called on the Senate to publicly admonish President Bush …
RELATED ITEMS:
rawstory.com:
Full transcript: Feingold announces he will move to censure President  —  RAW STORY  —  ABC'S "THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS" / MARCH 12, 2006  —  STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning, everyone.  President Bush is coming off a week that one top GOP strategist called the worst of his presidency.
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Frist Responds to Feingold's Censure Proposal  —  Frist Responds to Feingold's Censure Proposal  —  Coming off his weekend straw poll victory (lol) in his own backyard, Frist responded to Feingold's proposal.  —  Video-WMP Video-QT Audio-MP3 ( David Edwards)
Tom Curry / MSNBC:
And the winner is Frist, the home state favorite  —  But the big surprise is Massachusetts' Gov. Mitt Romney's showing … MSNBC TV  —  MEMPHIS, Tenn. -  —  Tom Curry  —  And the winner is Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.  —  The climax of a three-day gathering of Republican activists …
Nico / Think Progress:
VIDEO: Feingold Will Introduce Resolution To Censure President Bush
Discussion: Democratic Veteran
Washington Post:
Arrest of Ex-Bush Aide Shocks Associates  —  Once-Soaring GOP Career Man Said to Be Devoted to His Family and Church  —  Claude A. Allen has said his mother warned him that as a black man he risked ruining his life, or at least his career, by becoming a Republican.
RELATED ITEMS:
New York Times:
Former Aide's Arrest Surprises Friends and Colleagues  —  WASHINGTON, March 11 — The arrest on theft charges of Claude A. Allen, who until recently was President Bush's top adviser on domestic policy, was an apparent fall from power that surprised and mystified his friends and former colleagues.
Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:
Valerie's Thinly Veiled Cover?  —  Well, the theater of the absurd that tries to pass for journalism has gone to new lows with a goofy story in today's Chicago Tribune.  The article, Internet Blows CIA Cover  —  claims, "It's easy to track America's covert operatives.
RELATED ITEMS:
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
The Fame of Valerie Plame
Discussion: YARGB and Sister Toldjah
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Army Guard Refilling Its Ranks  —  The Army National Guard, which has suffered a severe three-year recruiting slump, has begun to reel in soldiers in record numbers, aided in part by a new initiative that pays Guard members $2,000 for each person they enlist.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
McCain Tests New Road to Nomination  —  2000's GOP Rebel Incorporates Support for Bush Into Quest for Change  —  MEMPHIS, March 11 — No one stole the show at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference here this weekend, but Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) demonstrated why every …
RELATED ITEM:
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
The GOP Abortion Two-Step
Reuters:
FACTBOX-Developments in Iraq, March 12  —  March 12 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents and political developments in Iraq as of 1610 GMT on Sunday.  —  U.S. and Iraqi forces have been battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led government since U.S. troops toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
BREITBART.COM:
Hecklers harass families of US soldiers killed in Iraq  —  Five women sang and danced as they held up signs saying "thank God for dead soldiers" at the funeral of an army sergeant who was killed by an Iraqi bomb.  —  For them, it was the perfect way to spread God's word: America was being punished for tolerating homosexuality.
Editor and Publisher:
Days of DeWine and Ruses?  Reporters May Be Exempt from Eavesdropping Bill  —  WASHINGTON Reporters who write about government surveillance could be prosecuted under proposed legislation that would solidify the administration's eavesdropping authority, according to some legal analysts …
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
Bloggers at the Gates: What Was Good for EBay Should Be Good for Politics  —  After the disastrous 2004 election, prominent Democrats gathered in Monterey, Calif., to discuss what to do next.  The organizers scheduled a session on coalition building, but each special interest complained that its issue was being slighted.
Nicholas Wade / New York Times:
The Twists and Turns of History, and of DNA  —  Charles Brewer-Carias/Associated Press, left; Hulton Archive/Getty Images, middle; Fox Photos/Getty Images  —  ADAPTATION The Yanomamo, left, and Ashkenazi Jews, center, may be examples of a society's genetic response to circumstances.
Independent:
Donald Rumsfeld makes $5m killing on bird flu drug  —  Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu.  The US Defence Secretary has made more than $5m (£2.9m) in capital gains from selling shares in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu …
Discussion: Elephants in Academia
Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Harris adds more uncertainty to race … In the latest sign of uncertainty surrounding her beleaguered Senate campaign, Katherine Harris canceled plans to attend a Republican conference in Tennessee Saturday to take stock of her political future.  —  "Unfortunately, I am unable to join you this weekend …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Daily Kos
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 3:00 PM ET, March 12, 2006.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
James Hamilton / Econbrowser:
The latest employment figures: implications for policy
Discussion: Angry Bear and macroblog
Sean Rayment / Telegraph:
SAS soldier quits Army in disgust at 'illegal' American tactics in Iraq
Discussion: Informed Comment and TalkLeft
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Media shockingly ignorant of Muslims among us
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE and lgf
Tom Bevan / The RCP Blog:
SRLC Day One: Mitt Romney
Independent:
How Islamic inventors changed the world
Anthony Deutsch / Associated Press:
Autopsy Performed on Milosevic's Remains
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Patriot Act Partly Blamed in Madrid Case
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Heretik
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Gatekeeper v. amateurs
 Earlier Items: 
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Consolidating Power in Talibanistan
Robert Farley / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Brief Thoughts on Slobodan
Matt Bai / New York Times:
The Fallback  —  If you harbor serious thoughts of running …
Peter Berkowitz / Weekly Standard:
U.S. Military: 8 Elite Law Schools: 0
Associated Press:
Stem Cell Proposal Splits Missouri G.O.P.
Discussion: TalkLeft and RuminateThis
Joseph Rago / Opinion Journal:
Status Reporter  —  Tom Wolfe's advice: Escape the …
Discussion: The Fat Guy and Steve Sailer
David J. Rothkopf / Washington Post:
Look Who's Running the World Now
Editor and Publisher:
John Burns, Back from Baghdad: U.S. Effort In Iraq Will Likely Fail
 

 
From Techmeme:

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: EU regulators are planning to fine Apple under the DMA, after it failed to let developers steer users to cheaper deals and offers outside the App Store

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
The Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees and tells staff in an email that it is eliminating its advocacy and global programs divisions

Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider:
Apple adds an Apple News Live Activity widget to track the 2024 US election results in real time on iPhone and iPad lock screens and the Apple Watch widget view

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page